THE HUNGARIAN SESSIONS
Not publicly sold - stock acquired by The
Nashville Teens for use as promotional material.
(Originally published as part of "Best and
Rarities" from RockinBox Records - no longer on general release but
used for publicity)

Biggest Night Of Her Life ;Rocking On The
Railroad ; I'm A Lonely One ;Ex Kay on LX ; All Along The Watchtower
; Tobacco Road ; Sun Dog ; This Little Bird ; Ella James ; Tennessee
Woman

Note - tracks all appear on Rockin' Back to
Tobacco Road except Ella James

Most of The Nashville Teens original work is now out of print, but there is a
healthy market in second hand records, particularly vinyl. You will need to
search the internet to find your local suppliers or to find what may be
available on eBay or from any of the specialist record dealers

VIDEO

The following film and DVD issues
are currently available to buy.

During the sixties we had no MTV and the concept of music videos was
still way off in the future - even TOP OF THE POPS - the weekly British TV
programme which pioneered pop publicity, was broadcast live.

We didn't have video recorders either, and the BBC was piss poor at
archiving - especially archiving phenomena which its controllers doubtless
regarded as a transient fashion. As a result there is not very much
TV type video footage of the early sixties music scene.

Luckily there were some films we could watch at the cinema. Some
were just filmed pop music shows and some had a loose (and often
ludicrous) plot to give an excuse for a lot of different musicians to
appear and perform their then current songs. We know of three such
films still available in which the NASHVILLE
TEENS appeared.

BE MY GUEST
A corny monochrome film starring an exceedingly young David Hemmings who
outwits a roguish local promoter who is trying to establish "The
Brighton Sound" The NASHVILLE
TEENS appear singing What'cha Gonna Do.
The scenes of the female audience screaming when Ray sings the chorus line reminds us that the Teens were the ultimate boy band of
their day. The film also includes a guest appearance by Jerry Lee
Lewis - extending an association with the Teens, who backed him on early
tours of the UK and Germany.

GO GO MANIA Originally
released in the UK as POP GEAR. This colour
film is a straightforward music show with each act introduced by a beaming
young Jimmy Saville. The NASHVILLE
TEENS perform Tobacco Road.

GONKS GO BEAT Another corny plot in
which Kenneth Connor is an intergalactic agent tasked with sorting out a
feud between "Beatland" and "Ballad Isle" and in
which love - predictably - plays a role in uniting the types of music.
The NASHVILLE TEENS play a
rocking version of Poor Boy in this colour film, which also
stars Terry Scott, Frank Thornton and Arthur Mullard. The film
also has a very young Ginger Baker as one of a crew of drummers confined
to "drum prison".

You too can get these films. I haven't found them in PAL or SECAM
format yet, but they can be got on NTSC format from THE
VIDEO BEAT of 425 Lombard Street, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA.
Most modern video players in the UK will play NTSC format as well as UK
standard PAL. You can order the videos on line from www.thevideobeat.com.
The company provides a really helpful service, and have films featuring
many other British artists as well.

Compiled
by Jim Howell from Gorilla Beat (No. 8, 1980),
Record Collector (No. 52, Dec. 1983), The Tapestry of Delights, and the
personal collection of Jim Howell
: Supplemented by conversations with Art Sharp
and the subsequent issue of the CDs "Rocking Back to Tobacco Road" in 2007
and "Nashville Teens - Tobacco Road" in 2016

1. Singles

7"
45

Tobacco Road (version 1)/I Like It Like That

UK Decca F 11930
US London 9689

1964
1964

7"
45

Google Eye (version 1)/T.N.T

UK Decca F 12000
US London 9712

1964
1964

7"
45

Find My Way Back Home/Devil-In-Law

UK Decca F 12089
US London 9736

1965
1965

7"
45

The Little Bird (version 1)/Whatcha Gonna Do

UK Decca F 12143
US MGM K 13357

1965
1965

7"
45

I Know How It Feels To Be Loved/Soon Forgotten

UK Decca F 12255
US MGM 13406

1965
1965

7"
45

The Hard Way/Upside Down

UK Decca F 12316
France Decca 72073

1966
1966

7"
45

Revived 45 Time/Forbidden Fruit

UK Decca F 12458

1966

7"
45

That’s My Woman/Words

UK Decca F12542
US MGM K 13678

1966
1966

7"
45

I’m Coming Home/Searching

UK Decca F 12580
Turkey Decca F 12580

1967
1967

7"
45

The Biggest Night Of Her Life/Last Minute

UK Decca F 12657
Germany Decca DI 25340

1967

1967

7"
45

Wydicombe [sic] Fair (version 2)/Hitch-Hike

Hungary Qualiton SP 733

7"
45

All Along The Watchtower/Sun Dog

UK Decca F 12754
France Decca 79023

1968
1968

7"
45

The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian
(version 1)/Looking For You

5. Soundtracks and Compilations
(there are many compilations with Tobacco Road or Google Eye on
them; this is a list of those we know of. For clarity we have not listed all the other tracks on these
compilations.)

LP

Gonks Go Beat
Poor Boy

UK Decca LK 4673

1965

LP

The Greatest Hits From England
Tobacco Road (version 1)

Canada Parrot PAS 71010

1970

LP

Heroes & Villians
Tobacco Road (live #1)

Reprocessed stereo
UK Dakota Records OTA-1001

1982

LP

Hard Up Heroes
Tobacco Road (version 1)

UK Decca DPA 3009/10
Canada Deram DPA-30090

1974

LP

The World of Hits, Vol. 2
Tobacco Road (version 1)

UK Decca SPA 35

?

LP

The Sound Of The Sixties
Find My Way Back Home

FranceEva
EV 12021/12022

1983

CD

Sixties Archive, Vol. 1 – The
Sound Of The Sixties
Find My Way Back Home (CD version of Eva LP)

France Eva EVA B3

199?

LP

Broken Dream, Vol. 1
Ex Kay One Lx

Germany Line/Outline OLLP 5299 AS

1983

LP

Broken Dream, Vol. 2
Whatcha Gonna Do

Germany Line/Outline OLLP 5316 AS

1983

LP

Broken Dream, Vol. 4
Poor Boy

Germany Line/Outline OLLP 5395 AS

1984

LP

Broken Dream, Vol. 5
Widdicombe Fair (version 1)

Germany Line/Outline OLLP 5296 AS

1984

LP

Rubble 13 Freak Beat Fantoms
Train Keeps Rollin’

UK Bam Caruso KIRI 102

1989

CD

Rubble Vol. 7
Train Keeps Rollin'

UK Bam Caruso CD RUB 7

1992

LP

Justafixation II
Last Minute

UK? Funny 3
Limited edition of 250

199?

CD

Made In England Vol. 1 –
British Beat Special 1964-69
Poor Boy and Indian Reservation

from the CD "West Coast"
Vanity Fare with Ray Phillips
Can't Be So Bad

Thumbszupp
Records TBZ66

2012

10.
Known Unreleased Recordings

unreleased as at
1st January 2017

Shouldn't Have Been So Nice

Art Sharp's collection

Tell The
People

Art Sharp's collection

Zobo

not known

I Put A Spell
On You (live)

Roger Cooper's collection - available on you Tube

Love Is The
Answer

recorded in Denmark in mid seventies - holder of original not known, but
a "re-mix" of it has been published in USA - see above.

Notes

1.

Tobacco
Road has been recorded a number of times by the Nashville Teens,
both as single/LP tracks and on 60s compilation CDs in the 1990s.
Jim Howells listing of versions, with their times, are as follows:

Version
1: Original 45

2:25

Version
2: 1969 re-recording on New World LP

2:34

Version
3: 1977 Sky 45 version

2:59

Version
4: 1984 EP version

2:27

Version
5: On 1996 Wishin’ and Hopin’ compilation

3:28

Version
6: Mid 90s version on Top Ten Hits, Wild Thing and Hits of the 60s compilations

2:39

Version 7: On 1995 Beat Boom Classics CD

2:54

Version 8: Live in Birmingham for the BBC Broadcast 1966

Live
#1: On 1982 Heroes & Villains compilation LP

4:19

Live
#2: On 1998 British Rock On Tour compilation LP

4:29

2.

There are four versions of Google Eye
by The Nashville Teens in addition to Ray Phillips solo versions (note
that the title is often misspelled Goggle Eye):
Version 1 : the original 45
Version 2 : on the 1997 Top Ten Hits Of The Sixties – Hits
From The 60’s Supergroups CD.
Version 3 : on the 1995 Beat Boom Classics CD
Version 4 : recorded live for the BBC broadcast in 1966 (not
released until 2016)

3.

There are three versions of Find My Way Back Home
Version 1 : the original 45
Version 2 : on the 1995 Beat Boom Classics CD
Version 3 : on the 1984 EP on Butt Records

4.

There are three versions of Widdicombe Fair:
Version 1 : New World LP
Version 2 : A Hungarian 45, which also appears on both the Best and Rarities
CD and the 2016 CD "Nashville Teens - Tobacco Road".
Version 3 : recorded live for the BBC
broadcast in 1966 (not released until 2016)

5.

There are three versions of The Little Bird:
Version 1 : the original 45 a
Version 2 : A Hungarian 45. which also appears on the Best and Rarities
CD and the 2016 CD "Nashville Teens - Tobacco Road".
Version 3 : a Hungarian 45 featuring Hungarian vocalist Zalatnay
Sarolta with Ray Phillips and The Nashville teens - Ray's vocals
dominate.

6.

There
are two versions of The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation:
Version 1 : A Hungarian 45, which also appears on the Best and Rarities
CD and the 2016 CD "Nashville Teens - Tobacco Road".
Version 3 : recorded live for the BBC
broadcast in 1966 (not released until 2016)

7.

There are two versions of Midnight: The UK single on Go Go
Records and the Hungarian single on Favorit Records.

8.

On
Friday, May 22, 1964, the Nashville Teens (minus Ray Phillips and
Art Sharp) recorded six songs with Carl Perkins at Decca Studios,
London. Five of the songs appear on the Classic Carl Perkins
5-CD set on Bear Family Records from Germany. The sixth
song, Your True Love, has not been released and is said to be
lost. Big Bad Blues is listed as appearing on other Bear
Family CDs by Carl Perkins, including Back On Top (BCD 16422),
Country Store Collection (CD CST 53), The Rocking Guitar Man (BE
3299) and Turn Around (CD 3012822).
However, I don’t know if it is the Nashville Teens version.
The version on The Rocking Guitar Man is not, since it was
recorded live in Paris in 1965. The Turn Around CD also
includes two versions of Lonely Heart.

9.

A
potential single with "You Shouldn’t Have Been So Nice" and "Tell
The People" was recorded by Ray Phillips and Art Sharp backed by
session musicians. As at January 2017 the record has never
been released, but according to a 1983 edition of Record Collector
it was allocated a release number as a 45 single, but was not
subsequently released.

10.

Tennessee
Woman, the flip side of The Arizona Swamp Company single of Train
Keeps Rollin’, appears to be the same version as the flip of the
Nashville Teens Ella James. I base this on comparing the
version on the Rare 60’s Beat Treasures Vol. 1 CD (which is
stated as being the flip side of Train Keeps Rollin’) with the
Ella James 45. I cannot discern any difference between the
two. Both singles were on Parlophone and the Arizona Swamp
Company single was released prior to Ella James. I assume
the group was still under contract with Decca at the time and had
to use a different name for Parlophone. The same flip side,
recorded for Parlophone, could be used on their first Parlophone
release as the Nashville Teens.
These tracks were recorded by Art Sharp and Ray Phillips with
session musicians in 1970, and have been re-released on the CD
Nashville Teens - Tobacco Road, by Secret Records in 2016.

UNITED KINGDOM:(source: Guinness Book of British Hit Singles; lists the top
50)

9th July 1964 - remained for 13
weeks

TOBACCO ROAD

Decca F 11930

peaked at
6 in the charts

22nd October 1964 - remained for 11 weeks

GOOGLE EYE

Decca F
12000

peaked at 10 in the charts

4th March 1965 -
remained for6 weeks

FIND MY WAY BACK HOME

Decca F
12089

peaked at 34 in the charts

20th May 1965 -
remained for 4 weeks

THIS LITTLE BIRD

Decca F
12143

peaked at 38 in the charts

3rd Feb 1966 -
remained for 2 weeks

THE HARD WAY

Decca F
12316

peaked at 45 in the charts

24th Feb 1966 -
re-entered for 1 week

THE HARD WAY

Decca F
12316

peaked at 48 in the charts

U.S.A.:(source Jim Howell)

The
Nashville Teens had two Top 100 entries on the Billboard chart in
the US. Tobacco Road entered the chart on September 12, 1964
and stayed on for 11 weeks, reaching No. 14. Find My Way
Back Home entered the charts on March 3, 1965 and stayed on two
weeks, reaching number 98.

CANADA:(source Jim Howell)

The
best I can do for Canadian charts are those of radio station CHUM
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The only appearance of the
Nashville Teens is for Tobacco Road that was on for 8 weeks,
commencing October 5, 1964, reaching No. 13.